Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

The problem now facing Marshall says Crowley is that the Chief of Staff has a number of generals who have little experience or internal discipline regarding intelligence information. They are not tempered to intrigue as are their British counterparts. Via Colonel McCormack’s staff, carefully selected young officers are assigned as special liaison officers to division, corps and army headquarters where they are taxed with the mission of persuading their respective generals to accept and act on “special intelligence,” which alone the junior officer conveyed. The protection of the source of this information is vital, and in the main the liaison officers will be rewarded with the confidence of their generals. As we will see later, living in the interstices of an active unit will be awkward for the liaison officer who is compelled to disguise his